Descriptive Information

Title

مرآه العجائب ... [الخ.].

Transliterated Title

Mirʼāt al-ʻajāʼib ... [etc.].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 293

Identifier

ark:/88435/8w32rb92q

Publisher

[18--]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1800

Format

Manuscript

Extent

i, 23, i leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 242 x 175 mm bound to 246 x 180 mm.

References

Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), 734.

Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn, col. 1648.

Brockelmann, GAL, SI, 428, no. 45.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 1b-19b: Mirʼāt al-ʻajāʼib / li-Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Muhtār. Also attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān.

2. fol. 19b-21b: al-Risālah al-baḥrīyah fī al-ṣanʻah al-ilāhīyah.

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

One illustration in color on fol. 3a.

Incipit: [مراة العجائب] الحمد لله الذى تفرد بالبقاء و قهر العباد بالفناء -- [الرسالة البحرية] و ما توفىقى الا بالله اعلموا اخوان الحقىقة ... اننى ذات لىلة

Discovery Information

Subject

Alchemy—Islamic countries

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

illuminations (paintings)

Physical Characteristics

File Count

27

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

Holding location

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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9aa14c03-a72b-4fba-96d2-d70dd0c80ee2/manifest

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